(superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
(superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(4) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(5) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
(6) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
(8) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
(9) In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E.
(10) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(11) The couple were glad about this, though modest in their ambitions for it.
(12) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
(13) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(14) I spoke to the doctor on the pitch and he said it would be all right to carry on and I am glad I stayed there.
(15) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(16) I'm glad to see that thanks to my calls, the Metropolitan police, the culture, media and sport select committee and the Press Complaints Commission are now investigating these claims.
(17) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(18) We are glad that the whole job [is] completed to mutual satisfaction and thanks to all who participated and helped to realise the biggest transfer in the club’s history.
(19) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
(20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.
Gladden
Definition:
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) His ideas about the revival of politics in the Facebook age find almost no echo among Ukippers, while whathe has said in the recent past about the future of the state would not exactly gladden hearts in Jaywick.
(2) It is not easy to see much that gladdens the heart in the story of Ian Watkins, the former rock star who has had his appeal against his 29-year prison sentence for child abuse thrown out .
(3) It was a statement to gladden the heart: "I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer."
(4) Pint from £2.90 Golden Ball A pub to gladden the heart of any Guardian reader, this.
(5) He said then that a negative decision would "gladden [Poland's] enemies".
(6) The Washington consensus, which Ferguson describes in The Ascent of Money as a wishlist "that would have gladdened the heart of a British imperial administrator", looks irretrievably battered - and yet he refuses to blame any erstwhile masters of the universe.
(7) A very bad start, it was not necessary.” Manchester United’s Luke Shaw out for months with double fracture Read more At kick-off the sight of Anthony Martial lining up as the centre-forward for the 19-year-old’s first start gladdened the football romantic.
(8) But the television pictures of grateful pats on the back gladdened Tory hearts.
(9) It cannot be said that the Palace of Westminster has in recent years overburdened the population of Britain with heart-gladdening news.
(10) Brian Gladden, the chief financial officer, said the macroeconomic climate "is clearly impacting our results.
(11) It’s one that will gladden the heart of so many British people who seek his counsel, and who wish they didn’t have to do at a foreigner’s remove: desperate as ever for a new target to have a frothingly weird pop at, he has turned to us.
(12) Nonetheless, the egalitarian heart isn't gladdened.
(13) Coogan, in his Partridge guise, said: “I am both thrilled, humbled, gladdened and excited to be bringing Mid Morning Matters back to Sky Atlantic .
(14) A comparison of the likely loser and winner in the election should gladden the heart of anyone who believes in upward social mobility.
(15) In different ways Keane, Ronaldo, Henry and Touré uplifted their teams and gladdened the hearts of football lovers.
(16) But it does gladden the heart how the constantly evolving Edinburgh fringe keeps defying attempts to control and corporatise it.